Python: “ignored” context manager

There was a recent fantastic addition to Python 3.4 by Raymond Hettinger: contextlib.ignored. It’s a context manager which lets you shorten the following often-occurring pattern:

try:
    os.remove('i_probably_do_not_exist.txt')
except OSError:
    pass

And turn it into this:

with ignored(OSError):
    os.remove('i_probably_do_not_exist')

Much shorted and prettier. But, as probably most of engineers, you have to use older version of python in production. That’s where this little chunk of code comes in. Create a little compat (as in “compatibility”) library and add following function:

import contextlib

@contextlib.contextmanager
def ignored(*exceptions):
    try:
        yield
    except exceptions:
        pass

Beautiful!

UPDATE: As Andy pointed out in comments, this context manager has been renamed to contextlib.suppress (https://bugs.python.org/issue19266).